A quotation by Mary Somerville

Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science which have been by slow degrees vouchsafed to man, and are still granted in these latter times by the Differential Calculus, now superseded by the Higher Algebra, all of which must have existed in that sublimely omniscient Mind from eternity.
Quoted in Martha Somerville, Personal Recollections of Mary Somerville (Boston, 1874).

JOC/EFR February 2006

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